GKC Wednesday

Background: When I was the editor of Gilbert Magazine, I was responsible for the "Tremendous Trifles" column. It was occasionally hard to find a sufficient amount of interesting GKC material to fill the page, so John Peterson sent me a file full of Chesterton ancedotes. They were idiosyncratic, historical, and Chestertonian. He gave me permission to use them here. I hope y'all find them as interesting as I have over the years. Most of them have never been published.

Chesterton Short(s)

Any description of the literary dinner parties of Edwardian London are likely to mention G. K. Chesterton. An example may be found in Miranda Seymour's biography of the aristocratic Ottoline Morrell, who is chiefly remembered for her love affair with Bertrand Russell, and also as an irrepressible hostess to appreciative writers, painters, and musicians. The Chestertons are mentioned among the guests in 1905, along with, among many others, Hilaire Belloc. [Ottoline Morrell, New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1992, p. 75]